iOS

In iOS 7, restoring from backup can be paused, and then resumed later. So if it takes longer than you anticipated, you can always click the little X in the iTunes window and eject your iPhone. When you come back later, you can plug it back in, hit the sync button, and pick up where…

That's when I ran into a huge list of stuff I should have done over the years, but haven't for some reason. (Laziness is likely the real reason). There's a door that needs to be trued, a bathroom that needs painting, some patches on the lawn that defies every attempt to keep it sodded, a…

Holding down the Option key while you’re dragging will make copies of those files instead of moving them off of iCloud. You can tell that you’re copying files by the green plus sign that’ll appear on your cursor. To be honest, this may not be a necessary step—Apple claims that files won’t be removed from…

Those Years are further organized into Collections, which in turn are sorted into what are called Moments. Clear as mud, right? Well, despite how I feel about Apple’s new system for viewing images, there is one feature I really like that’ll let you see more of an overview of your Years and Collections views. Check…

It's true. My senior moments are becoming senior hours. Jumping out of bed in the morning now takes 10 minutes. When I walk into a new place I not only scan for fire exits, I locate the closest restrooms as well. Even my aches and pains have aches and pains. But few things worry me more…

Griffin Technology has released a wired keyboard  that specifically works with iPads, iPhones, and iPod touches. Bluetooth enthusiasts will probably raise their eyebrows, but there is method to Griffin’s madness.  Indeed, Apple has marketed the iPad and iPad 2 as a transformative educational tool, emphasizing the device's touch-screen display as being intuitive for children to…

You of course can do whatever you like with this—put all of the 724 books of the Wheel of Time series into their own Collection, say, or separate out fiction from nonfiction. It’s your party, and you can organize how you want to. So to access and edit your Collections, first open the iBooks app. On the…

Apple's Craig Federighi shows off iOS 8 features at WWDC “With the news coming out of Apple's keynote today that Wi-Fi Calling will be enabled with iOS 8 – I'm excited to welcome our iPhone customers to the convenience and ease of T-Mobile Wi-Fi Calling as well,” said T-Mobile Chief Marketing Officer Mike Sievert. “When…

Apple makes media and schedule sharing easier in iOS 8's Family Sharing Family Sharing lets up to six people share calendars, reminders and photo streams, plus they can all share their music, movie, app and book purchases. When kids make purchases, their parents get an onscreen notification where they can choose whether or not to…

It's good to know, too, that whenever you type something in the box, you can drag down again to show the toggle for either searching all mailboxes or just whichever one you’re in. Now here’s where the searching by attributes comes in. There are certain special types of messages you can look for—ones that are flagged,…

iMessage bug may eat text messages after you switch from iPhone to a different smartphone The problem crops up after switching from an iPhone to an Android phone if you also used Apple's iMessage service. Your phone number apparently doesn't unlink from iMessage, so texts from your iPhone using friends simply disappear into the ether,…

Here's a video from Mr. Novosad explaining Choosy:

On iOS: First, launch the Contacts app on your device. Tap the plus to create a new contact. Fill in the name of the contact, and then move down to phone number and enter the number. New contact name and number entered. Tap on the label and when the list of options comes up, choose Add…

_________________________ Recently, one of our TMO editors was outdoors, listening to music on an iPhone, and, suddenly, Christmas music started playing. That was unexpected, annoying and a mystery because there were only two playlists on that iPhone, and neither contained Christmas music. Ack! The mystery is explained by the following setting: Settings > iTunes &…

Launch Settings, then tap on Cellular. Once there, scroll down past “Set Up Personal Hotspot” and “Call Time” and you will see a list of apps, thankfully in alphabetical order. Each of them will show how much data has been used since last time “Reset Statistics” was pressed. More importantly, each one has a switch…

Touch ID is capable of scanning and storing up to five fingerprints With the release of the iOS 7.1 update last March, Apple acknowledged these issues by including an “improvement of Touch ID fingerprint recognition.” While I continued to enjoy flawless access via Touch ID on my iPhone 5s, I was indeed aware of several…

Owners of older iPhone models sue Apple over iOS 7 feature issues The lawsuit focuses on an issue where the iPhone's WiFi settings are greyed out and disabled so users can't join wireless networks. Without WiFi, the plaintiffs say, they can't perform iCloud backups or install software updates, and they're forced to use their cell…

Ah well, I'm content with limiting my audience to whatever happens to be flying, crawling, slithering, or walking pass my bathroom window while I'm showering. I know I'll never be a star, but I do enjoy belting out a tune every once in a while. Apparently so do many others. Singing seems to be the…

iPad and iPhone Kung Fu – Tips, Tricks, Hints, and Hacks for iOS 7, by Keir Thomas, is written for beginner to intermediate iOS 7 users. It contains over 300 tips, each one written in a clear, easy to follow style that works for first time iOS 7 users as easily as it works for…

The gameplay is simple. You touch the screen to move a character around various puzzles, and in many cases, you can manipulate in-world objects to get to places that seem inaccessible. It doesn’t have a ton of story, but what there is is endearing and fun. So what makes Monument Valley so cool and different? The…

Using Apple's own API to get results, fnd shows the results in tabs. You can look at all the sections of the store, or at each section individually. If you're searching for something vague or common words, then this is a quick way to narrow down results. Also, there is a scrolling list, which is…

First, open iPhoto, and then select a source from the sidebar to search within.  You can pick “Events,” for example, if you want to look through your entire library, or you could choose something like “Last 12 Months” from the sidebar to narrow your search to that subset of your images. Anyway, after you’ve done that, select the…

Apple improves iBeacon support in its Apple Store apps for the iPhone and iPad Apple improved system-wide iBeacons support with iOS 7.1, and the Apple Store 2.9.2 update for the iPhone and 1.1 update for the iPad add the same level of support in-app. iBeacons is Apple's new system for wirelessly pushing information to shoppers…

The problem is that the symbols Apple chose to differentiate between lower case and uppercase letters — meaning whether or not the Shift key is active — don't give any indication as to what you'll actually see when you tap a letter. The keyboard Apple gave us with iOS 7.1 Since a picture speaks a…